My best friend in elementary school insisted that it was impossible to have a baby if one wasn't married. If someone had posession of a baby, it meant they stole it from the hospital.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that after 9 months, mothers went to the hospital to buy a baby off the doctors.Anon
- When I was 4, I thought you chose and bought your baby at the hospital. I believed this until I was 6.Anon
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- when I was little I used to think you had to have a baby before you got married!— Supergirl
- When I will little I used to believe that when you got married, you signed a contract to order a baby! LOL— Kriatina
- I thought when you get married you have to fill out a form to get a baby and then you get one.— Danielle